Re: Bug: Windows 2003 fails to install on xen-unstable tip

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 18/04/13 09:13, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 17.04.13 at 20:13, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 17/04/13 09:27, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 16.04.13 at 16:35, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>>> On 16/04/13 15:34, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 16.04.13 at 16:22, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The other day I just happened to try to install Windows 2003 on
>>>>>> xen-unstable tip.  After booting the CD and copying the files, the
>>>>>> whole thing stops at "Setup is starting Windows".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The VM is in the "blocked" state; which means it has called HLT and is
>>>>>> waiting for interrupts; but no interrupts are delivered, so everything
>>>>>> just stops.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Windows XP, strangely enough, installs just fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have duplicated this with both qemu-upstream and qemu-traditional;
>>>>>> and also on both AMD and Intel.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was wondering:
>>>>>> 1. if any of you had an idea what changeset might be involved
>>>>> Any of the RTC emulation changes since 4.2 would be possible
>>>>> candidates, with mine much more likely than Tim's (since his mainly
>>>>> fix issues mine introduced).
>>>> If you've got a git hash tag for your first change, I can do a quick
>>>> test to see if that's it.
>>> The first of these commits is 2fe82ac11fd078485388fe7c5e8bc3b6ac9185b0.
>> Here are the results of my bisect:
>>
>> 620d5dad54008e40798c4a0c4322aef274c36fa3 is the first bad commit
>> commit 620d5dad54008e40798c4a0c4322aef274c36fa3
>> Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> Date:   Tue Feb 5 09:44:00 2013 +0100
>>
>>       x86/HVM: assorted RTC emulation adjustments
> So time to really consider a (partial) revert then, as obviously Tim's
> attempt to fix this without reverting weren't successful (I take it
> that you were at the tip of -unstable before starting the bisection).

Yes, the tip of -unstable (as of what, 2 days ago?) didn't work.

  -George